The fourth of eight children,
Omar SyOmar Sy was born in
TrappesTrappes in the
YvelinesYvelines department, France. His parents are both emigrants from West
Africa . His Mauritanian mother worked as a house-cleaner, and his
Senegalese father worked in a factory. He has
FulaniFulani origins. He was
raised in low-income suburban housing projects .

CAREER

He started his career after high school in 1996 with Radio Nova as a
comedian where he met comedy partner
Fred TestotFred Testot . Afterwards, he
appeared in the TV show Le Cinéma de Jamel on
Canal+Canal+ , with Jamel
Debbouze . He then created a TV show called Le Visiophon. This was
followed by various TV and stage shows such as Je ne fais pas mon
âge, Service après-vente des émissions, Omar et Fred: le spectacle.
In 2005, Service après-vente des émissions was adapted into short
sketches of 2 or 3 minutes on Canal+. (In 2012,
Canal+Canal+ announced that
the programme had been dropped from its schedule.)

In 2014, Sy appeared in X-Men: Days of Future Past , in which he
played the character Bishop . He also stars in Samba , directed by
Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano. He co-starred in the fourth film
of the
Jurassic ParkJurassic Park saga,
Jurassic WorldJurassic World , which was released in
June 2015. In 2017, he voiced the character Hot Rod in the film
Transformers: The Last Knight , the fifth installment in the
TransformersTransformers Film Series .

PERSONAL LIFE

On 5 July 2007, he married Hélène, the mother of his four children,
in Tremblay-sur-Mauldre. They were together ten years before
marrying. The family resides in a house in Yvelines
Montfort-l'Amaury.